The Remembered Mother and the Fantasized Mother

The Physician's Work and Marriage

“…In middle life, when internalized aspects of early familial relationships tend to weaken again and more completely than they did in adolescence [18][19][20] , these people tend to find themselves angry, dissatisfied with their lives, and quite vulnerable to depression. One depressed, high-achieving forty-one year-old physician expressed both his excessive expectation of gratification in his work and h s disappointment in his statement, "I feel I've been jilted by my work.''…”

Psychometric Development of a Midlife Crisis Questionnaire (MLC-Q): A Dual Approach Using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis

“…Some people view midlife as a stage where goals are achieved and psychological growth slows, resulting in relative stability. People regard it as a psychological pause on the path to old age (Prosen et al, 1972). Middle-aged adults go through a stressful time during midlife, which is a significant time when people may go through various life upheavals (Le et al, 2019).…”

Psychoanalysis and the study of adult lives.

“…There may be a fourth such transformation, a crisis of survivorship, beginning sometime during the eighth decade of life, as people begin to outlive their cohort and to replace time-space relations (Novey, 1968(Novey, / 1985 with memories. Accompanying the life review (Butler, 1963;Kaufman, 1986;Prosen, Martin, & Prosen, 1972;McMahon & Rhudick, 1964), or in settling accounts with the past, there may be increased mythological activityreconciling previous conflicts and controversies in favor of desired outcomes that provide a particular sense of solace. Consistent with Kearl's observation regarding the importance of maintaining a sense of meaning and personal coherence across the life course, Marshall (1986) has portrayed this reworking of the personal or developmental narrative in order to justdy to oneself decisions and actions over the course of a lifetime as the "legitimation of biography."…”